Quote Originally Posted by Thorne View Post

This sounds like typical apologetics. "They LIKED being slaves! They WANTED to be slaves. So that made it all right!"
Yes, I think it does - in some cases anyway. People did choose to sell themselves into slavery, not to fulfill any kind of desire or yearning, but to avoid a worse fate, such as poverty and destitution. There are also instances where people of great accomplishment and ambition chose enslavement in order to attain wealth and power, and I believe that several important characters in history became slaves voluntarily and rose to great heights in China, Persia, Rome and many other places.

(I cannot avoid the temptation to use this post to promote a little scratching at http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/forums/sh...91-Young-Slave.)